485 Rats Captured in Chocolate Factory
Fujiya Co., maker of sweets, cream puffs and other products is in serious trouble and the prospects are getting worse.
The company is under investigation for selling products made with expired dairy products.
As of yesterday, 485 rats were caught roaming the vats.
"If news of the rats leaks to the media, we will face a financial crisis and bankruptcy," says an internal top-secret document.
Uh…we will see now, won't we?
The word is out.
But, where did the rats come from in the first place?
Someone will surely correct me if I am wrong, but I learned that it was a United States Navy ship that brought the first rats to Japan way back when.
Before that, Japan had no problem.
Now, Fujiya is facing bankruptcy because of them.
What do you think?
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July 10, 2007
In my opinion it is preposterous to assume that the species of Rattus norvegicus (common brown rat) arrived in Japan on a US ship. The arrival of rats in Japan pre-dates both the modern US as a country and the formation of the US Navy (both recent, 20th century creations). Is the website making the assumption that the presence of brown rats in Japan is less than a couple of hundred years old? Prove it!
for a natural phenomenon such as the spread of a successfully reproductive species throughout the world, then you should point at the English and Portuguese ships that reached Japan at the end of the M. Ages (in case you’re wondering what that is I’m talking about 14th-15th centuries AD, that is HUNDREDS OF YEARS AGO).
If you do have to blame some gai-jin (and why wouldn’t you after all, you are Japanese
Any respectable news source that I’m aware of checks the historical accuracy of the information it posts. I would recommend that this website does the same and stop posting ethnocentric information based on cultural biases.